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Black Mark is a demonspawn mutation and monster spell which inflicts one of three random status effects.

Player Mutation

Black Mark is a demonspawn mutation with 3 levels.

The second level of this mutation has the eponymous 'Black Mark' effect. When attacking a monster in melee, there's a 20% chance that you inflict one status effect of:

If a status would be useless, it is rerolled.

Monster Spell

Empowers the caster and any nearby allies to debilitate their foes on a successful melee attack, allowing them to inflict draining, cause weakness, or deplete magical power.

The monster version of Black Mark is a spell that applies a black mark status effect to any ally in LOS of the caster. Whenever a monster with this enchantment damages a creature in melee, it applies antimagic, weak, or draining.

History

Prior to 0.28, Black Mark would not reroll if it got a useless effect.
Prior to 0.27, the player version was the third rank of the demonspawn mutation, not the second.
Gloorx Vloq had this spell in 0.18.
Since 0.17, black Mark no longer has vampiric effect (healing the player for 1d(damage done-1)); its other effects are now stronger. Also, the set of effects had slow instead of weak.
Black Mark was added in 0.14.

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+'''Black Mark''' is a [[demonspawn mutation]] and monster spell which inflicts one of three random status effects.
-==Player version==
+==Player Mutation==
-'''Black Mark''' is the second level of the [[Black Mark (mutation)|Black Mark]] [[demonspawn mutation]]. Each time you attack a monster in melee, there is a 20% chance that you will drain its vitality, applying one of these effects to the victim: [[antimagic]], [[weak]], or [[draining (brand)|draining]].
+[[Black Mark (mutation)|Black Mark]] is a demonspawn mutation with 3 levels.
-==Monster version==
+The second level of this mutation has the eponymous 'Black Mark' effect. When attacking a monster in melee, there's a 20% chance that you inflict one status effect of:
-{{flavour|Empowers the caster and any nearby allies to debilitate their foes on a successful melee attack, allowing them to inflict draining, cause weakness, or deplete magical power.}}
-'''Black Mark''' is a monster-only spell that applies the ''black mark'' [[status effect]] to any ally in the [[LOS]] of the caster. When a monster with this enchantment deals some damage in melee to the player or another monster, one of the following effects will be applied to the defender:
 *[[Antimagic]]
 *[[Weak]]
 *[[Draining]]
+If a status would be useless, it is rerolled.
+==Monster Spell==
+{{flavour|Empowers the caster and any nearby allies to debilitate their foes on a successful melee attack, allowing them to inflict draining, cause weakness, or deplete magical power.}}
+The monster version of Black Mark is a spell that applies a ''black mark'' [[status effect]] to any ally in [[LOS]] of the caster. Whenever a monster with this enchantment damages a creature in melee, it applies [[antimagic]], [[weak]], or [[draining]].
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